Songs Of Revolution Assignment
Think like an... Ethnomusicologist
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Protest Song Database
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Protest Song Criticism and Analysis
What makes a song revolutionary?
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/getupstandup/music.html
Click on the link below to see TONS of songs of struggle -- you can listen to tracks and look at liner notes for information about lyrics! http://www.folkways.si.edu/searchresults.aspx?sPhrase=Struggle&s
Read about the history of Protest Music:
What makes a song revolutionary?
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/getupstandup/music.html
Click on the link below to see TONS of songs of struggle -- you can listen to tracks and look at liner notes for information about lyrics! http://www.folkways.si.edu/searchresults.aspx?sPhrase=Struggle&s
Read about the history of Protest Music:
- 1Types of protest song
- 2In the USA
- 2.1In the Nineteenth Century
- 2.2In the Twentieth Century
- 2.2.11900–1920; Labor Movement, Class Struggle, and The Great War
- 2.2.21920s–1930s; The Great Depression and Racial Discrimination
- 2.2.31940s- 1950s; The labor movement vs McCarthyism; Anti-Nuclear songs
- 2.2.4The 1960s: The Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and Peace and Revolution
- 2.2.51970s; The Vietnam War, Soul Music
- 2.2.6The 1980s: Anti-Reagan protest songs, and the birth of Rap
2.2.7The 1990s; Hard-Rock Protest Bands, Women's Rights, and Protest Parodies
- 2.3In the Twenty-First Century
- 2.4Criticism
- 3European protest songs
- 4Irish Rebel Songs
- 5French socialist anthem, protest songs and singers
- 6German protest music: The "Deutschpunk" movement
- 7Russian protest music
- 8Belgian anti-Iraq war song
- 9Latin American protest songs
- 10African protest songs
- 11Asian protest songs
- 12Australian protest music
- 13See also
- 14References
- 15External links